WEARING THEIR BOOTS

I grew up in a home where my dad had a land surveying business. He was a tough man and will not play with his job. For his hard stand, many of us stayed away from his profession. As success grew, so we grew and it began to occur to me that daddy will not always be 42 years old. That he is growing older and would one day need everyone and want us all around him. It never happened.

No one is indispensable! So he believes, and he has developed a mechanism for surviving exiting staffs that shockingly resign. Painfully, it took a while to see that while his wish is to instill that value, he is not in any way getting younger and that even staffs will be a competition later.

Good Parents teach like the masters. Learn from them!

The greatest privilege you enjoy in family businesses is the existence of a carved market and the privilege of learning without many mistakes. The business may not look big now but that is your new worthy burden. Between sole proprietorship and multinational businesses is a management needed in your person that must be able to tell competition that “It’s not business as usual”.

Your parent's business is a personal and extra gift for you. The magnitude of your capacity to expand the business might just go, not less but greater and better than it was transmitted you if you commit yourself to it.

Just re-lace your boot and take your place!

ENJOY PATIENCE

Impatience is the true first love of wrong decision. All great things go through process from conception to delivery. If you don’t allow the thing on your  mind to incubate, you might end up with a premature concept. Until raw ideas get polished through perseverance, they will never change into creatitivity and innovation. Impatience could be a serious career problem.

You can open your mouth to speak and generate hundreds of enemies and fake friends simply because you spoke prematurely. Impatience is the reason why many geniuses have followed the crowd and become ordinarily.

Be Patient! Photo Credit : www.theemotionmachine.com

Premature reaction can make you legitimately  lose your own thing. Some things are yours but it is not every time you can ask for it. It is not anyone you can ask and you cannot ask the way you like. In some cases, it is even better for others to ask for your own rights!

Ambition, fear, enthusiasm and anxiety can all be expressed positively and negatively. Let your actions speak more than your words. Say less than necessary when you are angry. Be known as that persevering youth who finishes whatever work he starts! Stop pushing away your seat by speaking prematurely. Never be found to be gullible.

Your patience is passed only when your timing is right! Impatience always sleeps amidst tears in the House of Wrong Decision. Reject their accommodation.

Patience is a virtue. Enjoy it!

THE PRICE OF HARDWORK

I generally suspect simple things. It's one of my major problems with gambling-telling me yesterday, you had $100 but you played a 10-minute game and now you have $1m. Ooooh!  Immediately I congratulate you, my brain starts looking for a business to do with you in order to win some cash from you legitimately!

I was shocked to find out that in many parts of the Bible, the words “simple” and “foolish” could be used interchangeably in so many parts without loss of contextual meaning. It only makes me suspect simple things the more and pushes me again to take the bull of hardwork by the horn.

Smokin' Joe Frazier

The processes of innovation and creativity are never lovely. They drain! Fermentation process involves lots of work activities going on which produces a not too lovely smell but a fantastic product. The sight of the new baby instantly wipes the long tears and screams of a mother immediately after childbirth. For many, the sacrifice of sleep is the price for academic excellence. Hardwork does not always smell or look nice. Infact, sometimes, it takes your smile away but for a while.

This brings me to the words of the old heavyweight champion, Joe Frazier when he said, “Champions aren't made in the ring. They are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights." There are no shortcuts for hardwork!

If it’s too good to be true, it is definitely too good to be true. Learn to suspect free lunch. Simple work generates simple results. Unfortunately the world needs only the excellent. Great achievements have hurdles all around them.

Life, according to Dr. Tai Solarin, if it is going to be abundant, must have plenty of hills and vales and you as that ambitious youth must surmount or bypass all to become great.

Pay the price for the big deal. The top is empty!

OCCUPY THE OCCUPIED

Everywhere is filled up. The places yet unconquered are dark and secret.

 As empty as you think space is, its filled with air, gases, etc. Until you make an attempt to occupy, air remains the custodian of that space. Bridges makes roads amidst the sea. Babies make space for themselves in a female's womb. There are always bigger giants standing to occupy where you want to take. Many times they got there before you or got lucky to form a territory even when their so called tall wall is cardboard.

To occupy, keep in mind that there are few lucks on the earth amidst billions of people. Luck is at the casino and it does not know you. You can't run your life on the sides of a dice. The god of luck calls the lucky the unlucky at the same time. The best of things come with preparation and readiness!

There is a always way to occupy!

Finally, occupiers only shift for what claims its authority and rights.Creativity and Innovation can only be triggered by you if exert first, the strength within. You got to swallow the capsules that ignite your internal force needed for conquest. At that time when you decide to make that next hard push, you may never know that you are causing an internal crack somewhere. If you intensify, you will find out that what you are afraid of is afraid of you. If you get too vigorous, the door might just open super-wide in acceptance of your compelling entry... or even shatter and bow to you!

Occupy that space and take the stage! 

YOU ALWAYS HAVE A PERSON

"The worst part about been strong is that no one ever asks if you are okay"

Everyone needs who to tell the truth and be safe. Many times, I either remain silent or depend on me rather than trust a parrot. Trust scores are usually and generally low.

Yet there is a brother closer than a friend who sticks to you like the cult. His word is his bond. He believes too that "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"

He is my tag team.

You always have a person

                                                     
When you find this your truthsayer and you are spiritually sure, keep him. For a bird at hand is the very bird. Hold him well. There may be nothing in the bush

CREATIVITY FOR HAPPINESS

Each time I recall the entry of Rose after she was invited by Jack from the royal 1st class Party of the big ship in the film, Titanic into that Gaelic storm steering band's heated live performance at the Titanic's 3rd class Ship Base, I am compelled to affirm that creativity carries happiness around like an electromagnetic force exciting both the judge and the audience.

Happiness is not locked up in a Moet, a Marlboro, a Mulatto, a Mercedes or in a wrap of Marijuana but sediments in the dormancy of creativity. The popping up of your genius leads to the discovery of true self-happiness. Wealth or poverty in the absence of creativity or problem solving skills leads only to non-fulfillment, loneliness or bitterness. People doing what they should be doing are always happy. Whether they live in the eyebrow areas  or in the creeks does not matter!‎ In fact, creativity till today, still makes the ordinary dine with the royals! 

Smash anything that attacks your creativity by wasting the innovative thinking space  and thinking time of your mind. Secrets, wrongdoing, fear etc are creativity killers. 

Jack and Rose at the very creative Gaelic band live show in the film, Titanic

Burst them! Put a smile on someone's face daily through your genius. It will come back to you in folds.

There is a joy unspeakable when you can boldly say "I have found my place". Hard work, innovation, wisdom, information and God's help are inevitably needed on the way there. Inch daily into your passion. 

...And then you will find out, not too long after that not only is your creativity a source of fulfillment to you, but also the reference point for inspiration and Happiness for others.

ENERGY FOR ACCESS: WHATS ON YOUR MIND?

As a young man, I have concentrated on several things- sex, women, God, academics and business at different points in time. I have found out that you will get and become what you focus your mind and energy on. Think positive and it will come to you.  Deepen your mind academically and you will soon be a faculty. Follow the money and some will always follow you. Give attention to a thing and it will instruct you some day. You will soon access what you pump your mind and energy into.

The energies of a young person is limitless. Its the real energy. You can do more now than when you are 70.

We can always deceive ourselves about where we are and what we are doing but we cannot deceive ourselves about what we think. Where our mind is always, matters the most. What controls your mind? What takes your mind out of your body? That is who you are and that is how you became who you are. That is also what will determine what you will become.

Looks and appearance are the fakest covers of personalities. Inside that short under-estimated man may be the continuous exertion of mental energy to access and achieve. Underneath that most beautiful face might be the most-wasted mind. Watch out!

Audit your mind. Shut down heavy thoughts of frivolities like sex and masturbation. Let your career take a larger thinking space and soon, that intense energy available to focus and concentrate will lead you into access, innovation and ultimately breakthrough!

Thank you

TRAIN YOUR ABILITY

Now to business! We all see ourselves aspiring for different things. Some young people want to do just business while others love academics. Many have turned sports to a career while Music and Oratory are today money making gifts.  Advocacy could be the passion of some.

I know of talents, gifts, strengths, abilities, capacities and grace. The comparative advantage of these abilities is that the best of training in your natural abilities could turn you into a world legend. How? Because in your own special case, hard work and genius are complementing each other! The ingenious expression of these abilities in some people wants to make you ask if they were actually born of a woman or dropped off from the sky as a gift to the earth.  

Everywhere I go I have learnt to admire people with just one gift! They just go brazen most times and run hard with it. The people who look unsure are the people with 2 gifts and more. They are the ones with the questions of which one should I pick? Which one should I start with? Let me take my time etc. Unfortunately, unused gifts die!

Why not take one of your abilities today and run hard with it? Take care of your first “distraction”, work hard with the best and you may be surprised at how multiple abilities can resettle themselves in an individual for a timed future expression.

Train your ability.

LOAD THE MONEY

You may need a lot of money to do big things and small monies to do small things. Yet small monies can stop big things from happening and a disrespect for big monies can stop even the smallest things. If you are looking millions of naira to start that first business, you may simply be looking for a more expensive school of hard knocks!

 

Money: It does the bigger things when saved!

The Choicest Schools of Business Intelligence are many times very cheap in monetary terms.

 

Money accumulates on the platform of sacrifice and refusal to fall for money-sapping emotion.  Gather all the money from gifts to savings and stash them altogether into one. Money has no grade or colour.  Accumulate and load the small monies like a bullet in a gun and one day, you may be shocked at what it could shoot and kill.

 

Interestingly as soon as it works, no one will tell you to repeat it.

 

The big shot will be yours as you do this. Load the Money.

FORGET IT! THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT YOUR FATHER

Well, before we start digging into real career issues , I need the more amoral and less emotional you. You promised me, remember. Lol.

I have checked and also asked my late dad who repeated to me severally that Government is not part of my surname. How painful! If Government was, I will have been able to ask for everything.
The government herself is looking for honest fixers and career decision is only a major route to becoming one. In the core of government, there is critical need for help- Character is an ultimate search, corruption is a blood-sucker and greed has been very extremely omnivorous in many government circles.

In such settings,  character and selflessness are great virtues.

Barrack Obama 

Please note that  no matter how good it is in your country, the government will never be able to answer the question of what you are to do. You are the sole acceptor and expressor of that genius in you. A government can create an enabling environment for your genius but may never be able to identify it.

The Government is not responsible for our confusion as graduates. Fix your career somehow and I tell you one day, government will beg you to come fix the nation.

WELCOME ADDRESS BY TUNDE ADEGBITE

Hello!  I am Tunde Adegbite, a career blogger and I welcome you to www.careersgps.blogspot.com. The burden that triggered careersgps.com was experential. It was not an enjoyable one! Like every other young grad,  I had completed my National Youth Service Corps in early 2005 in Nigeria. One major concern that wakes you up daily after NYSC in Nigeria is "Alawee (Government NYSC stipend) is over. I need a  CV  but do i really want to work or learn a skill? Should i start a trade? Am i interested in a second degree? How about an Msc?  Should i go start afresh? Can i take a professional exam now or later? What do i do now?"

Its interesting to tell you that these are just the starting questions Life delivers to your doorstep after graduation to welcome you.

I used to think this was only a major problem of young grads until i started working only to find out that many employees have this same burden. "What am i to do?" seems to be one of the toughest and unanswered questions of the average Nigerian and African youth. Entrepreneurial students, unfulfilled and recently sacked employees have this same burden as the young Nigerian grad.

This blog will talk to you strongly about setting out for a new career- deciding on what next, deciding on what you want, deciding on where to start and how to grow, deciding on funding and entrepreneurship and professional exams that matter for career growth.

I believe very strongly that this blog will be a great starting point not only for your career fulfillment, personal development but also for your overall Happiness.

Please simply subscribe to receive this daily for free and be assured of an entertaining, informative and a well invested time.

Once again I welcome you.

  

Tunde Adegbite